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Apple's Texas-Sized Problem
Link to: https://popular.info/p/apples-texas-problem
John Gruber
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Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X
Starting with this week’s new MacBook Air models, Flash Player is no longer bundled with Mac OS X.
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Daring Fireball: The Daily Wait
Waiting is death, so unless they fix their app, The Daily is dead.
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Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
I’m not arguing that it benefits anyone other than Apple itself. I’m just arguing that it makes sense from Apple’s perspective — and it was Apple’s decision to make.
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Emotional Rescue
To discount the emotional appeal of Apple’s products is to ignore the entire point of Apple’s products.
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Daring Fireball: GIF, H.264, and Patents
I bring this up not to say browsers should not support Ogg Theora — I’m just saying Ogg is a lot closer to being in GIF’s boat than H.264 is.
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Hope You Enjoy the Smell of Napalm in the Morning (Apple vs. Google)
On the growing sense that Apple is gearing up for war against Google.
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Google’s ‘Meaning of Open’
Link to: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
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Then Welcome To Android
Openness, choice, innovation.
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Not My Gorilla
Link to: http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano/msg/f5213577eaeadc47?pli=1
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How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong
Over the weekend I’ve exchanged a few emails with my source, so that I can explain what happened.
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Why 960 x 640
The goal isn’t merely to exceed the resolution of competing devices. The goal is to rival the optical quality of print.
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Mobile Multitasking
In the traditional model, the primary priority is keeping everything open. In this new model, the primary priority is that the system must always be responsive to the user.
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IPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store
I think it would be good for everyone — Apple, developers, and iPhone users — if unrestricted web apps became a serious alternative to the restricted App Store. But it isn’t credible to argue that they already are.
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Gruber: The OS Opportunity
These PC makers are lacking in neither resources nor opportunity. What they’re lacking is ambition, gumption, and passion for great software and new frontiers.
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Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context
The future of computing probably is in the direction of thin clients connecting to network services for storage and software, but my hunch is that Chrome OS is too thin.
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Daring Fireball: Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle
One thing that strikes me about Chrome OS and Litl is that neither bother trying to do everything Windows or Mac OS X can do. Not even close. I don’t think either even bothers trying to serve as one’s primary computer.
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Why charging for access to news sites won't work
I wish them good luck with this, and I mean that sincerely, but I believe this is a fundamentally flawed strategy.
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Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes?
Regarding Randall Stross’s piece in The New York Times claiming the problem isn’t AT&T’s network, but rather the iPhone’s hardware.
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Daring Fireball's take on Apple's FCC response
A few choice bits.
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Bill Gates on iTunes Store: another interesting memo
Link to: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/PDF/Gates/gatesmail15.pdf
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Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality
Is the App Store popular because the iPhone is great? Or is the iPhone great because the App Store is popular?
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So Dan Lyons Called
So Dan Lyons called.
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Daring Fireball: Android Opportunity Addenda
Follow-up points and observations regarding ‘The Android Opportunity’.
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Gruber's WWDC 2009 Predictions
What I know, don’t know, and know I don’t know about tomorrow’s WWDC announcements. As usual, please, no wagering.
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Daring Fireball: Copying the Wrong Thing
The key ingredient I see in successful apps, Mac or web — and, really, in creative commercial endeavors of any kind — is that the creators are building something they themselves love.